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TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Ifg#racts front the Morning Papers, Feb. 25, 1826 [MORNING nititA,L9.] At a period when the commercial embarras meats of the country arc such as must in their na ture materially affect the revenue, if not en danger the payment of his dividends to the pub lic creditor, the wiseacres of the Common Coun cil have thought proper to hold a meeting for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for a reduction of The public taxes. Now this is an instance of absolute wisdom which we should hardly have expected even from the corporate body. Would any of these good people, if they had certain debts to pay, and certain other expellees to pro vide for, just at the moment that part of their means had failed, think of relinquishing a good part of the remainder ? It is no small aggrava tion of the folly of such a proceeding, that it came from people resident at the seat of Govern ment ; and of people who must daily and hourly witness the evil they thus endeavour to increase. At any rate it would have heeu prudent, not to say decent, to have waited till the Chancellor of the Exchequer had opened his financial plans and means to the country. The Ministers, we suspect, would be quite as glad as the corporate body would be just now to be able to reduce two or three of the unpopular taxes. Men in power know well enough the advantage of being able to throw out a tub to the whale but they know too that there are those among the corporate hotly who would he glad enough to lead them into a Mr& culty, and then turn round and laugh at and up braid them for their pains. The Government is beset with difficulties enough at this moment, without having them enhanced by the superficial ha mgtuiti and shortsighted policy of the pseudo- Sts testnen of Qucerthithe. The first duty of the Government is to keep the credit of the country unimpaired by an inviolable faith with the public creditor. If this country would have wars and debts—or supposing, if they please, that it could not avoid them, it is in vain for the corporate body first to raise statues to the memory of those who carried on and incurred thorn, and after that to flinch from the consequences. paw r m Es.] The manner in which Mr. Canning stood for ward last night, for the double purpose of vindi cating his friend, and claiming to share with him in the responsibility of the measures censured, saes such us J o nttrnet the universal admiration of the llouse—one Honourable Member, per haps, alone excepted. Not that we suppose that Learned Gentleman to be at all deficient in taste or judgment ; but few can stop to admire the weapon while they are smarting under the tiriauncl : and Mr. Caneing's eloquent defence of Mr. tinskisson, was of that kind which leaves stings in the mind of the hearers.—Another fine and iltriking part of his speech was that in which, speaking of Mr. Pitt, with a veneration only short of idolatry, he yet claimed the freedom not to tread in his footsteps, where, indeed, those steps were not voluntarily taken by the great states man of that troubled day. We may wonder at the skill, the dexterity, and self-command with AV high he moved in a pyritous and slippery path, but we should not ourselves tread awry,' merely that we might imitate him, where there is nothing to render our own footing insecure. If Mr. Pitt imposed the Bank Restriction, it was in a mo went of peril and alarm from external and incur real hostility, and amid difficulties and dangers which there, were no other means to avert. We may pay a sincere tribute of applause to the re sources of a t4►reat mind struggling with such dif ficulOes, and may yet resolve to adopt no Si milar measure' under the pressure of a less impe rious necessity. [MORNING CIIRONICLE.I Mrs Ellice's motion fmr an inquiry with respect to the silk trade has been lost, after a discussion of two nights, by a majority of 222. to 40. The debate has effected a triumph to Ministers, who certainly have not a little reason to complain of the practices of the practical men, us they are called, who, after besieging Parliament and the Treasory, year after year, for a free trade, and the abolition of all prohibitory duties, when their desires are complied with, turn round, and without ceremony reproach Miuisters for the very measures which they themselves demanded. Mr, Ifuskisson and Mi. Canning both availed themselves very successfully of the opening which the inconsistency of their opponents gave them.— Indeed, Mr. Iluskisson's speech was one of the ablest ever delivered in Parliament. The sup porters or the motion completely failed in their charge against Ministers, for proceed. in in the work of setting free the coin. 'fierce of the country ; Ministers succeeded in proving that they had not done too much ; but unfortumitely for them, they are open to a very different accuantion of not having done enough. The trade,, which tegulates the profits of every other--the trade in Corn, remains subject to re strictions imposed Hugely to put money in the pockets of the men, in whose hands the go vernment of this country is placed. Ministers have promised to open this trade which is of infinitely more importance than any other ; but their •hands are yet tied. Our masters, it seems,. are yet refractory ; and the per formance of the promise, given by Ministers, is postponed to another year. So much for ihe hills of omission' of Ministers. But Messrs. 'Ellice, Williams, tend Baring, placed themselves in a state of opposition to all principles. Mr. Baring, in particular, had a most difficult part to play between his advocacy of a free trade in grain, anti his opposition to it free trade in silk. The arguments urged by him against the change in the silk trade would apply, were the Corn Latin; not in force ; and thus it appears, though h e wo uld protect the manufacture of silk from foreign competition, he would not protect the ma. nufacture of corn. Hut as the cheapness of the manufacture is not the consideration which deter. , mines hito—us, according to him, the corn growers ought to be forced to purchase home.made silks, though a hundred per cont. dearer than Foreign Si ks—we are at a toss to see why he should not force the Silk Manufacturer to purchase all his corn from the home grower, without refOence to price. We wish to have it understood, that in arguing against these doctrines, which would in sulate every kingdom, and even every province of the same kingdom, we by no means advocate the sudden destruction of the means of subsist tence of a large class of the population. But the precautions called' for by humanity in effectiug any changes, and the principles advocated by the supporters of the Motion, are perfectly distinct. [TUB REPIIESENTATIVE.I Mr. Ellice's motion for taking into cOnsidera tion the numerous petitions which have been laid upon the table of the House of Commons against the projected alterations in the silk trade, brought on a much more interesting discussion than might have been anticipated on a mere insulated ques tion of commercial policy. With great dexterity and ability Mr. Huskisson laid bold of the op. portunity thus presented to him of explaining the principles of the new system which he advocates. We admit that in unfolding his views he displayed great talents, and a consummate acquaintance with his subject. Yet there is one circumstance which we cannot help regretting, as it tends to weaken the force of -what he advanced in the de bate; we feel sorry that he should have made such a copious use of the argumentum ad hami nem; n weak argument even in a personal question between two individuals'; but utterly , worthless on a matter of general policy affect ing the public. W hat Mr. Baring or Mr. anybody else thought or asserted in 1816 ; or what was asked for in any petitions presented at any pre vious period, can in truth make nothing either for or against the principles which have been discussed in the present debate ; and we certainly wish, if we may be allowed to criticise so 'elo quent and masterly a display of acumen in corn. mercial affairs, as the Honourable Member exhi bited in his speech, that he had devoted less of his attention to topics which can be considered nt best but extraneous. We have no taste for this species of bush-fighting : it may for a moment prove interesting to the excited feelings of the hearers ; but it is that part of his powerful speech which will create the least sensation in the country. We regret thin circumstance still the more, as it naturally called forth from Mr. Baring last night an attempt at a personal retort ; uneasy tinder the taunts which had been thrown. out against, him, he endeavoured to reta liate, and attempted to slew that the Pre sident of the Board of Trade had been guilty of more inconsistency than could justly be laid to his own charge. Which of the parties had the best of this species of argument we have not at this late hour leisure to inquire. But in truth it matters little what the opinions or the conduct of either of the parties may have been at previous periods. If they were wrong before, consistency in error will not make them right now. The man who discovers his mistake and steps frankly forward to acknowledge his error, thews infinitely more intellect, as well as more manli. ness, than he who perseveres in an erroneous sys tem because he has once adopted it. rnitITISII PRENS..I The Combined Provincial Deputation that has arrived hi town for the purpose of soliciting Go. 'eminent for an issue of Exchequer bills, had an interview with Lord Liverpool yesterday morning, at Fife House. We understand that Ministers again declared, unequivocally and distinctly, to the parties assembled, that they adhered to the deter►ninatiun alrea►dy expressed in Parliament end elsewhere, to decline acceding to the soli. citations of the mercantile and manufacturing community. However, the First Lord of the Treasury and his Colleagues renewed slut pression of their opinion that the Bank possessed the power of making the advances required, and it was considered that an intimation was given that the influence of Ministers would again be used to overcome the objections made by the Bank Directors to a compliance with the► wishes of the Cabinet. Should the accommodation be eventually granted, it will be extended without reserve to all parties, whether merchants or manu facturers, who can give the security of articles of merchandise. rTHE TIMI3.] The interest which is felt for the poor Suffer ing silk weavers, and which every man not demi. lute of humanity must continue to regard their distresses, has been turned to good account by some of the masters in Shat branch of trade. On occasions like the present, it is of the first im portance that truth should be told without dis guise; for nothing can more contribute to prolong and aggravate every evil we complain of, than the giving currency to unfounded representations of its causes, its extent, or its probable remedies.— It was long ago stated by us, that the existing de pression of the silk-trade was not the come. quence of any act of Ministers, and could with no degree of fairness be ascribed to the substitution of a tax for a prohibition._ The manufacturers themselves participated in the confidence with which Ministers foretold the good etrects of the altered system, and abused that confidence by the headstrong rashness with which they forced up, through immoderate pur. chases, the price of raw silk all over the world. Mr. iluskisson, on Thursday, clinched that ques. (ion by his quotation of the Macclesfield adver tisement, which held out golden prospects of em. *puma to no less than 5,000 new hands : so ' eager were the manufacturers to swell their ope. rations beyond the utmost conceivable limits of any known consumption to sustain them. Having thus, though undesignedly we acknowledge, created a glut, and next—its inevitable sequel —a stagnation, the manufacturers throw their poor journeymen out of work ; and turn. lug found upon Parliament, exc l a im, it See " what your shocking law for importing fortign " silks has done for us ! How it has ruined the " masters ) and fami s h e d th ousan d s of the la " bourers!"—Let us ask, first, Is a stagnation in the commerce of the country peculiar to the silk trade at this moment ? Are we.not assured, on the contrary ; by grave Members of the Levitt tire on both sides of the House, that all branches of manufacture, and all descriptions of commerce, are actually suffering the most unexampled pres , sure ? Could they all be affected, then, by the apprehension that in July next French silks will have to encpunter a duty of SO per cent. on their introduction to the British market ? If so, the cotton, anti woollen anti iron traders, ought to petition ford Liverpool , --not for a loan of Exchequer Bills, but—for a repeal of the silk duty bill passed lasilsession, and for a new pro hibition of manufactured silks. But we ask, secondly, is the existing distress of the silk trade a new occurrence in this country ? Did the trade always flourish during the Saturnia regna of the prohibition ? For if not,—if, on the other hand, long periods of suffering are known to have arisen within our own recollec-, Lion, a return to prohibitory laws will present no guarantee for the future. We can allege, therefore, that in the year 1815 and ISI6, a de-, grce of misery was experienced by the poor ] weavers, and of loss by their emp.oyers, beyond all comparison more protracted, extensive, and severe, than any thin, that has recently afflicted either. The Spitalfields Charitable Society was instituted in the year 1811, to relieve the wretchedness which there then prevailed among that useful and justly pitied class of our fellow subjects. In the subsequent years 1815 and 1816, another and more dreadful crisis of destitution arose, the cruel scenes and heart breaking details of which are not merely recorded in printed statements which we have now before us, but are fixed in the recollection of those benevolent beings who devoted their services and fortunes to the succour of the miserable. [MORNING POST.] The repeated and urgent solicitations by which the mercantile classes continue to assail Ministers, Sir order to induce them to depart in some degree from the well onsidered principles which have been thought to forbid the application of any direct and immediate measures for the assist ance end relief of the commercial and manu facturing world, lead us to the re-examina tion of those principles, and of the practi• Cal question, whether in the actual circuit). Stances they could without impropriety be re. lazed. The soundness of the general principle, that the direct interference, of Government in the affairs of_ commerce, whatever immediate benefit may be expected from it, riffords precedent of a most dangerous and pernicious tendency, is not disputed ; it is only con. tended that giving the greatest importance to the general principle, there is yet enough, in the special circumstances—in the imperious exigencies of the crisis , to suspend or over. rule its authority. It cannot' however he con cealed, that there are also on the other hand special circumstances in the crisis, or rather in the (wises that have prodneed it, which are auxi• liury to the force of the general principle, and tend in this particular instance to swell both the number and the magnitude of the dangers to he apprehended from its relaxation.— There perhaps has never existed a commer. cia I crisis which admitted of such a clear, distinct, and unquestionable derivation, from causes with which the proceedings of Government as such were so entirely unmixed, from causes.founded so exclusively on the free agency and the undirected conduct of individuals. None of the special cir cumstances arising out of the antecedent conduct of Government, which have in former instances served as the warrant or the apology for inter ference, are to be found In the present ; and the absence of all sllCll , circnmstau ces would therefore in the present case give to the precedent of inter ference, allowed on all hands to be a bad one, a more extensive range and a more unqualified power. Nlinisters may therefore well hesitate to in. team); it is no visionary apprehension that their interference now ntight afford encouragement to the [future excesses of speculation. it would at best be a very questionable policy to check the workings of retributive and corrective calamity, altlioagh, like every general correction adminis tered by events, it confounds in its operation the innocent and the guilty. rrns PUBLIC LEDGER.] • The adjourned debate on Mr. Ellice's motion, ,for referring the Petitions of the Distressed Silk Weavers to a Select Committee, was .last night resumed. Mr. Baring opened the discussion, and in an Able speech, of con.. siderable length, advocarN rho cause of the Pe_ titioners, and commented in a powerful manner on the course of policy at present pursued by his Majesty's. Ministexs. The Honourable Member blamed the Government for not attending to the cries of the distressed Manufacturerti„ and abate a little of the system which they had. adapt. ed, rather than by persevering , in their thee. mica! projects, increase the misery under which a very numerous class - of the community at present laboured. Mr. C. Grant replied t o thelion, Member for Taunton, and defended the measures of Government., which, he cont en d e d, did not in the most distant wanner operate to ag gravate, much less to cause, the existing distress amon g th e Spit a iti e w a population. Mr. Canning also defended the measures of Government, and declared most unequivocally that Ministers, from A conscientious conviction that those measures were calculated to promote the best interests of the country, had determined to .persevere in them. After a long discussion, the . house came to a division, when . Mr. Ellice's motion for referring the Petitions ,to a Committee was lost by a majo. rity of 182, the numbers being --} or the motion 40—Against it 222. !ROYAL, A6ADIEMY or MUSK.—Strong charges against they characte r o f M r . Bocusa tiuviug recently appear ed iu several of the Public Prints, the Committee of the Royal Academy of Music, felt it to be. their duty to require of him, widow what measure he had adopted for Lb(' purpose of refut ing such charges, and Mr. Boehm having declared t o t he m hi s intention immedi ate ly to i ns titute legal proceedings against the authors of those chares. The Committee have determined, that, till the r esu l t of t hose proceedings shall lie known, Mr. Boehm shall discontinue his attendance at the Royal Academy of Music- At the same time, ,the Committee think it due to Mr. Boehm, to state, that his conduct, as connected with the Academy, during the time he has been employed in it, has been unimpeachable in every respect. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. C.aunnumr, FED. 24.—At a Congregation on Wednesday last the following degrees were conferred : Bachelors in Divinity...-Rev. Geo. Maximilian Slater, St. Peter's College (comp.) Rev. John Holmes, Corpus Christi College. Honormi Master of Arts.—Henry Walpole Nevill, Mag dalene Colleg:. Masters o Arts.—Rev. Henry Dickonson, St. P eter ' s Col lege; Rev. arles Pratt, Magdalene College (comp). Bachelor in Civil Lazy.--Rev. John Baker, Trinity Hall. Bachelor of Arts.—Henry Filtness, Queen's College. At the above Congregation a grace passed the Senate, to affix the University seal to petitions to both Houses of Parlia ment, for the abolition of Colonial Slavery. The following is a copy of the petition to the House of Lords " 'ro the Right Hon. the Lords Spiritual asul Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Par liament assembled, " The humble Petition of the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, " Shewth—That your petitioners continue to be deeply con vinced that the permanent existence of Slavery is inconsistent with the principles of British law, of sound policy and justice, and no less repugnant to the dictates of humanity, than to the spirit of the Christian religion. " That your petitioners regard with the liveliest feelings of Pgratitude the resolutions whi c h were unanimously adopted by arliament in 1823, for the purpose of effecting the gradual abolition of colonial slavery, and, in the mean time, of mid gating its evils. " That, entertaining a high sense of the ability, the promp titude, anti zeal with which his Majesty's Ministers have la boured to put in force these parliamentary resolutions, they cannot forbear to express their regret, that the measures of his Majesty's Government have not been met by a corresponding spirit on the part of the colonial assemblies. " That your petitioners, humbly pray your Right Hon. House to persevere in such measures, as, in its wisdom, it shall edge best calculated to bring the principles of th o s e reso l ut i ons into full effect. 1 " And your petitioners will ever pray, &c." The following Gentlemen were ordained by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, in Saint Mary-le-hone Chapel, London, on Sun day last :—• DEACONS. Samuel Adams, B. A. Sidney Sussex College Cambridge. llenry Alington, B. A. St.. Peter's College, Cambridge. Markland Barnard, B. A. Trinity College, Cambridge. Gustavus Andrew Burnaby, B. A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Charles Beauchamp Cooper, B. A. University College, Oxon. John Fox, B. A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. John Gaitskell, 13. A. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Thomas Middleton, B. A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxon. Thomas Shepherd, B. A. Christ Church, Oxon. .George Senhouse, B. A. Pembroke College, Cambridge. Henry Bettiscombe, B. A. Fellow of King's Coll. Cambridge Chas. Henry Bakerllazely, B. A. Clare Hall, Cambridge. Allen Fielding, B. A. Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge. By Let. Dim. from the Archbishop of Canterbury. M. G. Laseelles NVynytird, B.A. Christ Coll. Cambridge. IVillhon Overton, B.A. Trinity . College,.Cambridge. Thomas. James (Wand, Catharine Hall, Cambridge. By Let. Dim.:froni the Arthbishop of York. Edward Valle, B.A. Pembroke College, Oxon. Frederick Baillmche, Literate. By Let. D1'70'41.4)1 the Bishop of Wincheste r . Charles Holloway, B.A. Queen's College, Cambridge. 1 By Let. Dim. from the Bishop of No rw i c h. f Richard Thos. Lancashire, M.A. Exeter College, Oxon. / By Let. Dim. from the Bishop of Bochester , Thos. Agar Holland, B.A..Worcester College, Oxon. By Let. Dim. from the Bishop qif Chichester. Humphrey Pountney, B.A. Queen's College Oxon. By Let. Dim. from the Bishop of Worcester. f PRIESTS. - James Adcock, B.A. St. Peter's College, Cambridge. Peyton Blakiston t B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Charles Causton, B.A. Trinity Colle,ge, Oxon. Stephen 'Wilkinson Dowell, B.A. Worcester College, Ox. William Fowler, B.A. Magdalen College, Oxon. James Joseph ootlall, B.A. Pembroke College Oxon. William Cave Iltimfrey, B.A. St. Peter's College, Camb. John Olive, M.A. Wadham College, Oxon. Hobert Otutby, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge. Thelwall, J. 'l'. Salusbury, LL.B. Trinity Hall, Comb. John Chaim:, B.A. Trinity College, Dublin. 11 y Let. Dim. from theArchbiAup of Canterbury. Henry Carnegie Knox, B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxon. James Shirley, B.A. Trinity College, Oxon. By Let. Dim. from the Bislepp of Chic/leiter. Edward Francis,_ B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge. By Let. Ditn. from the' Bishop of Rochester. OmEcatn, FED. 2 4 1.....0n Wednesday last a Convocation was .holden 11)r the purpose of electing a Burgess for the University, in the room of Richard Heber, Esq. D.C.L. of llrasenose Col lege, (who has accepted the Stewardship of tile Chiltern Hun. dead), when Thomas Grimstone Bucknell Esteourt, Es q., M. A. of. Estcourt, in the county of Gloucester, and New Park, in the county of WiltS, and of Corpus Christi College, was pro. posed by the Rev. Dr. Bridges, President of Corpus Christi College, and unanimously elected. • , On Monday last Mr. Edward Payne was admitted actual Fellow of New College, Founder's kin. Yesterday 31r. Theophilus Henry Blackall, of the diocese of Exeter, was admitted Scholas of Corpus Christi College. Yesterday the following Degrees were conferred Bachelor in Divistity.—Rm Henry Brougham Wm.' Hill. coat, Queen's. • Masters v . Arts:—Petir Hesketb, Trinity, Grand Clom PoUnder ; John Hull, Brasenose ; Rev. Henry Dashwood. Trinity ; Neill Malcolm, Christ Church ; Rev. Thomas Little. bales, Student of Christ Church ; Rev. Henry Benwell Ater. ton ; Rev. Benjamin Croft Go o di son , W orcester. , Bachelors of Hilton, Christ Church, Grand Compounder ; John Sturges Martin, and John • Hippisley. OM; Augustus John Smith Christ Church ; Rev. James Charles Clutterbuck, Fellow of Exeter. . Bccktiastical Preferments.—The Rev. John Muckleston, B.A. of Christ Church, i s appointed D o m est i c Ch ap l a i n to hoed Delamere. The Rev. H. H. Rogers; LL.I3. Curate of Feensham, near Farnham, to the Rectory of Pylle, Somerset ; patron, Mr. Portthan, M.P. for Dorset. ' The ltev. Henry .Dashwood, to the Rectory of Halton ; patron, Sir John Dash. wood King, Bart. The Rev. Jo se ph Mrarkliam Perry has been instituted to the Vicarage of North Illukham, .Notts, on the presentation of the Rev. Samuel Francis Dashwood, Prehen. dory of Southwell. The Rev. Edward 13ouverie, to the Pre. bend of Preston, in Salisbury Cathedral. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Feb. 44. A nistettlatu Ditto, at Sight , , Rottettlatu ' lt 14 Antwet p le 14 flanilntrgly Atlona .. l'arit,3 D a y's si ght Ditto Bout deans, tilt to Berlin Frani:fin Intl the Main Petetsburgli . 9 0 Vienna lO 45 Trieste l9 25 Matlriti Ciotti ltii Effective Billwa e ‘ 3t; E ff ective li.trcdotta 4 evtlle Uihrstltal ' Leghorn G0. ,, t , • ........ , 434—Venice, Ital. Liv 26 Malta .......... —Naples . 39 Palermo ..„,. Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Bahia 4B Buenos Ayres 43 Dohlio .... 11j. Curti 1 i pet Cent. BULLION. l'ortngal fold,i it Coin / .o' , 0 0 per 0 2 Foreign thildpitt Bars 3 17 ti New Doubloons Now. nollari 0 4 11 Silver Standard in 1iar5...... Last week, John Sandercock, a Dissenting Minister, and Clerk and Assessor of the parish of St. Gunny's, aear Camelford, in Cornwall, ab sconded with about 401. of the parish money, iu company with a female servant, named Elizabeth Elliott, leaving behind him a wife and five chil dren. lie was apprehended in Plymouth on Monday, and taken ba r i-k to St. Gentry's in ti►e custody of a constable. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, FED. 24. WELLESLEY V. DUNE OF BEAUFORT. This was an application by the Honourable William Long Wellesley, to have the custody of his children, who, since the death of the late Mrs. Long Wellesley, have been under the care of her sisters, the Miss Longs, delivered up to him. The application was opposed by Mr. SUADWELL, Mr. TitEsr.ovE, and Mr. PEPYS, who read a long series of afficla= vits as to the private life and conversation of llfr. Wellesley, to shew how unfit it was to the moral and pecuniary interest of the infants, that he should be permitted to exercise any in fluence over them. The scenes detailed in these affidavits were often to' gross to allow of any abstract of them being given. The principal evidenee was that of Doc tor Bulkeley, the domestic physician, who proved the commencement of an adulterous intercourse betkreen Mr. Wellesley and a Mrs. Bligh, the wife of Captain Illigh, while Mr. and Mrs. Wellealey were at Naples—an inter course carried on in the same house with his wife, to whom Mrs. Bligh was brought home 33 a companion; the in decent and profane language commonly used by Mr. Wa to his wife, in one instance calling her a d u fool for her in terference;--.the fact of Mrs. Bhigh's becoming pregnant by Mr. Wellesley, and her application to him (Dr. Bulkeley) to procure abortion, and her referring him to Mr. Wellesley to remove his scruples when he refused to supply her with poison for that purpose, the domestic affliction of Mrs. Wel leaky, in consequence of her husband's infidelity and mal treatment; the habit in which Mr. W. indulged of teaching his own children to swear, especially his little daughter—the only part of her education, as the Counsel remarked, that he ever took the trouble to superintend. Dr. Balkeley's evidence went on to state, that when returned to Paris, Mrs. Wellesley, unable longer to endure her misery had written to Lord Mary borough, her father-in-law, who came with his lady to Paris, to effect a dissolution of the scandalous connexion between their son and Mrs. Bligh :—that Mr. Wellesley's abuse of his wife, when he discovered what she hail done, was so furious and out rageous, as to be audible all over the Place Vendome. She hod soon afterwards fled to England, and taken refuge with her sis ters in Clarges-street, determining to take measures to elket divorce. A beautiful and affecting letter, written by Mrs. Wel leaky at this time to Lord Maryborough, in which she elo quently set forth her past wrongs, and declared her future in ' tentions, was read. In this letter she asserted, that "she l i 3 , d been more than once the victim of infamous women." The evt' dence went further to prove that the subsequent conduct of Mr . Wellesley to his wife was such, as , in h e r th e n state of health' an inference might be drawn that Mr. Wellesley: was the nte. ra murderer of his wife. Act s of specifi c a d u lt e ry with Mr. lt , ti were deposed to within a few days of the presen t time. Many were very edifying letters, written by Mrs. Wellesley, read, especially one to Mr. Bli g h, a nd some to his sons well embellished with , oaths, in which, after recommending hint to take pains with his handwritin g , he gives him some ad vice for the formation of an Engli s h Gentleman. Above all, he • urges him, as a main ingredient in that character , not to check his spirit for hunting (in which it seems some obstacle had been thrown in his way) and instances Sir Francis Bur; dett, who was a mi g hty hunter, and, barring his Pel itics i s e ll perfect gentleman. In short, he advises him "top iny every animal upon the estate, from the elephant ' and Tommy —to catch all the cats he can la hold of—to ltuni to the fleas in the blanket." The Counsel, after reading _.volu minous statements,. of which the foregoing are a few, eon tended tended that the whole evidence exhibited such a series of pr v.. fligacy, that connected with his pecuniary embarrassment te dente of which was also given), the Court would not he war ranted in giving up to his power thee infants, and cite large sow which were settled upon them for their education. the Mr. fimrr, in reply, reprobated the expressions used in e evidence on the other side in which all the powers of Fnglish language had been ut in requisition for terms tO villify Mr. Wellesley's character, He had been accused of the the grosseet.profligacy of life—of deliberately corrupting morals of his children—of maltreating his wife, in a mannr r in the forest world as resting upon the testimony of so horrible, as to accelerate her death—in short, of being " hte moral murderer." And this charge would go abroad to t tens were unimpeached. He was prepared, however, to e g `', l. bit the persons making these affidavits in their true light. lie would pass over the subordinate witnes s o,, sonic of wile . ° were discarded servants, and begin with Dr. littlkeitY , whom he should shew .to be a base betrayer of Pr. 1 1, 3t , c confidence, and a pander to the vices of others. no C r . !: mented in severe terms upon the Doctor's evidence, 11 it seemed that notwitwithstanding the brutal scenes wltie° described as daily passing before him, he never left the house of Air. Wellesley , nor gave the least intimation of his conu, u ,; ( l till now. He ad described the horrid insult which 11 1 ",, been offered to his character by an application to assist in eK• persons whose clairst.e. murder of an unborn child et n indignation h a d been pressed on his part ; hehadmerely,according to his own word'' refused, with the observation th a t i t was hi s d uty to be the pre' server of life and not the d es tr o y er . Before Mr. HART could finish hi s re ply, t h e Lord C hancellor left the Court.—The argument will proceed on a future der. PREROGATIVE COURT, FEB. 24. WULLESLEY 5. LORD MARYBOBOUtiII• P ole Sit C. ROBINSON, on the part of Mr. Wellefdol 14 ', 71 ,g cu ted by the deceased Mrs.Vlrellesley Long Wellesley, moved that probatelshould be granted on a wie", be -1815. this ituotrument Mrs. W. Long Pole Weliel le y y!: queathed to her husband 504 W/. • but by a subselpient wthe executed in Sept., 1025, she revoked her femur will, leftv in g l i r . above-mentioned sum in trust:to Lord Al aryborough and . wos‘ Windsor, for her children. The will of September/ 1826 ' per not formally executed, having been Witnessed only by two sons ; it was therefore invalid, and the trustee were now citet, s to show cause why probate should not be granted on the of 1015. xi cites lies. JENNEB and LUSHINOTOR appeared for Mr.ill ley. The CounT orderedprobate an to be grant Pole Virellesley Juiy, 1815. COURT OF KING'S BiNC/I, FEB. 24. BARNES V. WINTER AND PAGE. , the . This was an action brought to recover the sum of °q ui in amount paym ent rlle d o e o i f 'e f n ai d w° a b n a t. li s i o. ' or a sf c es ce "s p oc t lh a da n c "t° e get h i l ea v 'c i n i c i i ti T y b t t e lti e ll n eb y proved, l t.h eti1(1: felld an that p am • Mr. 111ARBYATT, in his address to the Jury, stated, he rested his defence upon two grounds: first, that the ign r i g he es Bold by the plaintiff were unsound ; and secondly, that defendant Winter was under age. Mr. Gunt4EY-s-Then you ought to be indicted for - f ud• fur Mr.'lllminTATT-You ought to be indicted for a fr ond selling rotten horses. a go b The Lottl) CII;EF JUSTIC"-Well, if you in dict --- e other, I hope you won't bring the indictments here for trit!l• the A witness then produced a certificate of the baptisnio t . defendant in October, 11100, end of his birth in Sept. 11 . 3)1g iwo, Mr. GURNEY asked where this register was brought, ", 0 - 0 • and the witness replied, from a dissenting chapel at Nevo n Pyi.. -, Mr. CiuttNEYThen I object to its being received in t; „h donee. That chapel does not belong , to the Established Ow ! strppose. Witness.-oh, no; it has nothing to do with the Estab litil. ed Uhurch.....it is" The House oftleti."-(l.aughter.) hnn' sti a Mr. GunrigY-I know ; it is next door to the EleP Castle. Mrs. NVinter, the mother of the defendant, vim and she having sworn that the statement in the certificate P duced was correct, dent* Mr. GURNEY said, 11l could not withstand the evi and he thereihre submitted to the nonsult. t hen esileato: COAL MARKET, Fen. V. 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